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Smiddyhill Bridge

Road Bridge (19th Century)

Site Name Smiddyhill Bridge

Classification Road Bridge (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Whiteadder Water

Canmore ID 57521

Site Number NT66SE 20

NGR NT 69658 61223

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/57521

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Cranshaws
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Berwickshire
  • Former County Berwickshire

Architecture Notes

NT66SE 20 69658 61223

Smiddyhill Bridge [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, February 2010.

Not to be confused with Ellemford Bridge (NT 72896 60043), for which see NT76SW 10.

(Location cited as NT 696 613). Smiddyhill Bridge, Cranshaws, built 1887. A 2-span bridge, with dressed-stone arch rings, snecked-rubble spandrels and wing walls. The segmental arches are of unequal size. The cutwaters are rounded.

J R Hume 1976.

This bridge was built in 1887. Its date plaque is visible in photographs BW 2490 and BW 2410 and their scanned images. Information from RCAHMS (AB) 25 May 1999.

This bridge carries the B6355 public road over the Whiteadder Water, within the parish of Cranshaws.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 February 2010.

Activities

Sbc Note (15 April 2016)

Visibility: Standing structure or monument.

Information from Scottish Borders Council

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